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Identity & racial identitybooks

Below are the best books we could find on Identity and racial identity.

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The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race

Is race only about the color of your skin? In The Latinos of Asia, Anthony Christian Ocampo shows that what “color” you are depends largely on your social context. Filipino Americans, for example, helped establish the Asian American movement and are classified by the U.S. Census as Asian.

Anthony Christian Ocampo

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500 Years of Chicana Women’s History/500 Años de la Mujer Chicana

The history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote at most a chapter to Chicano history, with even less attention to the story of Chicanas.

Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez

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Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity

Young Latinos across the United States are redefining their identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways.

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Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism

Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR A timely and groundbreaking argument that all Americans must grapple with Latinos’ dynamic racial identity—because it impacts everything we think we know about race in America.

Laura E. Gómez

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Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood among Black Women

Mignon R. Moore brings to light the family life of a group that has been largely invisible―gay women of color―in a book that challenges long-standing ideas about racial identity, family formation, and motherhood.

Mignon R. Moore

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Raising Multiracial Children: Tools for Nurturing Identity in a Racialized World

The essential guide to parenting multiracial and multiethnic children of all ages and learning to support and celebrate their multiracial identities In a world where people are more likely to proclaim color-blindness than talk openly about race, how can we truly value, support, and celebrate our...

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Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition

Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world’s politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges.

Francis Fukuyama

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The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family

In The Other Madisons, Bettye Kearse—a descendant of an enslaved cook and, according to oral tradition, President James Madison—shares her family story and explores the issues of legacy, race, and the powerful consequences of telling the whole truth.

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De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us, Martínez presents a radical Latina perspective on race, liberation and identity.

Elizabeth Martínez

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Self-Portrait in Black and White: Family, Fatherhood, and Rethinking Race

The son of a “black” father and a “white” mother, Thomas Chatterton Williams found himself questioning long-held convictions about race upon the birth of his blond-haired, blue-eyed daughter―and came to realize that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them, or anyone else.

Thomas Chatterton Williams

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